I missed a few of my favorites too. I think the Americana genre had too little a spotlight. There are 100s of good musicians there. The groups that were so popular got too little of a segment. But it was good overall.
“What’cha doin’ with that lawn mower blade Karl?”
My main Dwight Yoakam quote.
Dwight is not really a cowboy name, don’t you think?
He’s named for Eisenhower. His name is Dwight David Yoakam.
That’s a nice bit of trivia. Thx
Took some digging but I found the song that turned me on to Martina. Heard it on the radio driving to Arkansas for a paddling trip.
That’s a good song.
You’d split the royalties with whoever wrote the music. In the case of the early country artists, a lot of those songs were old folk tunes that had never been copyrighted - or even published - and whoever (usually a music publisher or record company, not the artist) got the paperwork through the lawyers first, got the credit.
Here’s another of my favorite country songs.
Vince Gill trying to see “Go Rest High on That Mountain” got me teary.
*sing
I wish they had included a bit more Alan Jackson - if only to show his performance at George Jones’ memorial service.
Mr. Salinqmind never saw Garth Brooks and was quite astounded! Like ‘Queen’, only Country Western, lol. I have a relative who years ago took his wife on a ‘mystery tour’ for her birthday, they drove to the airport, took a plane, checked into a hotel, took a taxi to a venue to see…Yes, Mr. Garth Brooks! eeeeeeee! surprise, happy birthday!..jfc …sometimes I get a couple of cards, one from the cat, and a coffee mug for MY birthday…
I thought this and last night’s episodes were kind of crowded and rushed, getting everything in, but what a wonderful series, we watched every single night, entranced. The old time Country Music was the best.
I found very interesting the story about how A.P. Carter would travel through the countryside and “collect” songs, then copyright them and make tons of money from them. They described how he would just go to people and say “Hey, I heard you have a good song. May I hear it?” Does that mean he didn’t pay them anything? If so, why didn’t Peter Coyote or any of the talking heads acknowledge that this was super shady?
I have only seen the first episode and I think the fourth one about the 1950s. Snow was definitely mentioned in the latter. (I like his tune “Trouble in Mind”.)
Oh, I love Grace Potter.
Did I hear the Garth Brooks story correctly? He had such a great attendance at a concert that he booked 2 more at the same place and then another one with free tickets because of the scalper prices paid for at the other concerts?
and he showed up at a country event unannounced and signed autographs for something like 20 hrs straight.
Yep, that’s what they said.
The best story I’ve heard about Garth Brooks came from our own Snowboarder Bo:
I’m a little late to the game, as I just started the 1st ep last night.
First off - I’ve never been a fan of the Ken Burns schtick. I’ve often found that he takes a topic I expect to be interested in, and then bores the shit out of me with ponderous narration, slow pans of still photos, and over-reliance on a limited number of commentators. This seems to hit all of the same elements, but I expect to stick with it, mainly because I’m such a fan of the music that will be discussed.
But only part of the way through the first episode, I’m already having difficulty with the purported topic. What KB is calling country music sure includes a heckuva lot of music I never had heard called country.
A little background - I play in quite a few acoustic jam sessions and in a string band. I acknowledge how difficult it can be to “categorize” various performers/music. Heck, when I was in college, were Elvis Costello or the Pretenders punk? New wave? Rock and roll? Does it matter? It wasn’t until I attended a banjo camp that I appreciated the CLEAR distinctions between bluegrass and oldtime music. But here’s the rub - NONE of the bluegrass or oldtime pickers at that camp would’ve said they were playing “country” music.
Heck, I’ll listen to ANYTHING Rhiannon Giddens is associated with. But aside from her influences generally having been played in rural areas, it sure isn’t anything I - or anyone I ever encountered - would have called “country.”
In our jams we’ll generally play anything anyone brings. Last weekend I believe we played a George Jones song, a Gram Parsons song, and a Beatles tune. Along with any number of traditional fiddle tunes. I know for a fact that many people who see/hear us would call us a bluegrass band, simply because they lack any other frame of reference for acoustic music featuring banjos, fiddles, mandos. But we generally play pretty few bluegrass tunes.
If KB was going to cast his net so widely, I wonder why he called it country music, or why he decided to skip folk?